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Accounting, audit, tax and consulting – the life of your business. Hughes Blake is the Republic of Ireland representative of Integra International, a global association of independent accounting firms.

When it is put to Golden Discs' managing director Stephen Fitzgerald that is seems counter-intuitive that his business is making money and opening new stores at the tail-end of 2016, he laughs and replies: "It does, you're not the first person to say that." Read the full story here...

The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to west of Ireland car dealership Kenny Galway, effectively replacing a receiver appointed by a fund to the firm earlier this week. Read the full article here.

New data reveals 1,243 jobs saved in small and medium businesses following examinership this year. The Latest Hughes Blake SME Examinership Index Highlights Ongoing Corporate Restructuring Across the Country: 154 jobs saved in SMEs through the examinership process in Q4 2014 49% increase in the number of SME jobs saved by examinership year on year [...]

New figures from accounting firm Hughes Blake show almost 1,100 jobs were preserved at companies which went through the examinership process over the first nine months of the year. That's a 52% increase on the same period in 2013 though the figure is skewed by the large numbers of jobs saved at sports retailer Elverys [...]

Hughes Blake index shows that cheaper corporate rescue system having impact. Close to 1,100 jobs have been saved since the beginning of the year by placing companies in examinership, the corporate rescue mechanism that allows troubled businesses to seek court protection from creditors. Accountancy firm Hughes Blake….” By Barry O’Halloran Source: Irish Times 29th September [...]

The latest Hughes Blake SME Examinership Index, published today, reveals that the examinership process saved a total of 1,089 jobs in small and medium sized businesses in the first nine months of this year. This figure represents a 52% increase on the same period in 2013, with 539 jobs having been saved in Q3 alone, [...]